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No. 462,332. Patented Nov. 3, 1891.

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NICHOLAS SEDON, OF LETELLIN, CANADA.

CAR-COUPLING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 462,332, dated November3, 1891.

Application filed December 2, 1890. Serial No. 373,331. (No model.)

Dominion of Canada, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inCar-Couplings; and I do hereby declare the following, to be a full,clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enableothers skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use thesame.

The special object of the invention is to make a device which willenable the brakeman on a car to lift the link so as to readily enter anopposite draw-head without touching it with his hands.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a longitudinal vertical section; Fig. 2,aside elevation; Fig. 3, a front elevation; Fig. 4, a detail iew of thelever, and Fig. 5 a detail view of the linklifter.

In the drawings, A represents the drawhead with the shank a, to beattached to the car, and the jaws a a divergingly inclined on theinterior, the lower jaw a being provided with a seat (L in which reststhe tongue or link-lifter B, which is rounded at the back, so as to turnin the correspondingly-concaved shoulder a, and tapered toward thefront, so as to furnish a downwardly-inclined support for the link whenthe latter is not to be coupled with the pin of another draw-head.

the back of the link-lifter is made a square hole Z),in which fits thesquared part c of the lever C. By turning this lever back by means ofits round journals 0 0, whose bearings are in the opposite sides of thedraw-head, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 1 of the draw- Through ings,the tongue or lifter B raises the link D up to a horizontal position andthere holds it until it is coupled with the pin of another draw-head.

My invention is simple, cheap, and thoron ghly effective for itspurpose, dispenses with chains, springs, or other devices likely to getout of order, is very durable, will connect with any car using a linkand pin, and obviates the necessity of touching the link with the hand.I

I am aware that a hinged tongue in the mouth of a draw-head has beenraised by pivoted arms; but these are liable to be thrown down by anyjar which the car receives from the road or the impact of another car.Hence I use my bail, one of whose arms is fixed in the tongue and turnsin the sides of the drawhead, so that it maybe operated by hand from theplatform of car or from the ground, or by a rod or stick from the top ofcar, either to raise or lower the tongue and to hold it in eitherposition.

hat I claim as new and desire to )rotect by Letters Patent, is

In a car coupling, the tongue 13, having the squared holcb, incombination with the bail 0, having on-one of the outer arms the squaredpart c, which fits said tongue-hole b, and the journals 0 c, which turnin the sides of the draw-head, as shown and described.

In testimony whereof I aiiix mysignature in presence of two witnesses.

NICHOLAS SEDON.

\Vitnesses:

ALFRED 1IoULL, J. W. MACDONALD.

